Pencil and pen clip.



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Patented Oct. 1, 1912.

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:To allwwm it may Iman .'r. KLEIN, or NEW-Yoan, N. Y.

PENCIL .AND PEN CLIP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 1, 1912.

Application led August 24, 1911; Serial No. 645,781.

Be it known that I, FRED J. Krimis, a citizen of the United States, and resident of New York',"in the county of New ,York and State of New York, .have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Pencil and Pen Clips, of whic the following is a specilication. This invention relates to pencil and pen clips, and its main; object is to provide an inexpensive and etiicient clip, -made of a single continuous piece of wire, for attaching pencils and pens tothe outside cloth of pockets of coats-and vests,- and thus prevent them from falling outof the pockets when being carried about. I'have also embodied in the clip a certain peculiar reinforcing of certain parts whereby I give a' maximum of strength for the amount and kind of material employed.

4Figures 1, 2 and 3 of the drawing are rei spectively side and front elevations and plan of my improved pencil clip. Fig.. 4 isa per-7 -spective of the same, and Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the clip applied to a pencil.

Like characters refer to like parts in all figures vof the drawing.

The clipis formed of a single continuous piece of wire 1, doubled upon 'itself at 2 in such a way as to leave the left hand port-ion 3 a little longer than the right hand port-ion 4. The upper part of the left hand portion 3 is then bent around to form a circular loop or coil 5 at right angles to the length of the lower part. The right hand portion 4 is then bent over the left hand portion at 6 toward the left and around so as to form a circular loop or coil 7, alittle below the coil 5. The lower doubled portion of the wire is then bent so as to form a reversely curved spring-tongue 8, bending outward sharply at 9, then gradually inward at 10 and then outward again to the end 11. The longitudinal member 3 forms a stem for the clip and connects the various parts'together.

It will be noticed that the coil 7, by passing over the left hand longitudinal part of the clip has a bend at 6 which, in conjunction with the free .end of the coil, reinforces the longitudinal part of the clip, and prevents the clip from being-bent out of shape when the pencilis putgin the pocket for the pury poseio'f carrying it, or wheneverthe tongue- 1s pressed outward vin thedirection of the arrow a for. any reasp'l'if. The clip thus consists of two loops or coils 5 and 7, which act asa socket for holding the pencil or pen,

'and a tongue 8, which grips the edge of the pocket and prevents the' loss of the pencil or pen. Fig. 5 illustrates the method of using the clip on pencils.

op n and then firmly grip the pencil. The

pencil is carried in the pocket point down- .ward as usual with clips for pens and pencils and the doubled portion or springtongue 8 of the clip rests on the cloth.

The material of which the clips are made is soft and ductile enough to allow the coils 5 and 7 to be bent to adjust them to variations in the ldiameters of the pencils. The coils are bent inward or outward, as the case may be, making the diameters of the coils greater or less `as required.

vIt is obvious that the device is simple, strong and eiiicient, and also evident that it is adapted for use with other implements as well as with pens and pencils.

I claim 1. A pencil clip, embodying a tongue formed of two plies of wire, the longer of 'which forms a stem for the clip, an upper pencil-holding device joined to the said stem and a lower pencil-holding device joined to the second ply of wire, said. lower pencilholding device also embodying lmeans coacting with the stem of the clip, in .preventing distortion of the clip.

2. A pencil clip formed of a single continuous piece of wire, and embodying a spring-tongue formed by doubling the wire upon itself so that one ply of the doubled portion forms a stem for the clip, and two pencil-holding coils formed by the two end portions of the wire, placed at a suitable distance apart, the coil adjacent to the spring-- tongue being bent over and around the stem and acting in conjunction with the stem in preventing distortion of the clip.

Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of New York August, A. D.

. FRED J. KLEIN.

Witnesses: vllilnwnlzn F. 'RILEY, S. B. KING. 

